Every moderator here (and on other sub-reddits) knows that I'm the owner of DSOGaming. So I'd really love to see some proof of this. Who are you exactly and when did I say this? Because I never even asked our volunteers to share their stories on Reddit.

The reason we don't have many writers is because we can't afford paying them. We have some volunteers, however we don't demand much of them. For example they don't have to meet any deadlines, they are not forced to post X amount of stories per week and they are not forced to write a review even when they receive a key.

I believe also that we are one of the few websites that a) let its readers determine its theme/layout and b) let its reader determine its Comment Policy. We are in fact really open and transparent about what happens at DSOGaming if you read our Editorials. And we've never suggested to our readers or editors to spam Reddit. And I sure as hell don't 'create multiple accounts to spam Reddit'.

I haven't been a fan of your site since the very beginning I believe. It has a lot to do with the clickbait articles you guys post and there never appears to be any proofreading done. So on top of that I decided to check out your website since it's been a year or so. It is not a user friendly experience when the ads load before the article. Then you have to the gall to have a patreon also.

Seriously intrusive ads and you ask for patreon too?

With that said I am happy for your success and hope you never start lying to your audience.

Since I'm the author of that article and some users brought this thread to my attention, I thought I should clarify some details.

1) We used the UPLAY version that does not allow you to use an older version (Steam does offer such option).

2) Both the first and the last images show the same LOD. The last comparison in particular, since it's a panoramic image, would show if there was any downgrade. There isn't. Same can be said about the third comparison. Notice the distant objects that are the same (they are not many but they are exactly the same. If there was a LOD change, they wouldn't be rendered).

3) The AMD issues of the first image are performance related and have nothing to do with the visuals/graphics. We wanted screenshots from the launch version and that's why I used it. More information about the AMD performance issues can be found in my PC Performance Analysis.

Kudos to you and the work you put into it!
That being said, I don't know what to tell you. For me, after the patch, the visuals have changed for the worse. I have a good rig, the game played fine on ultra at 1440p and I enjoyed it for close to 50 hours.
But I am also kind of a pixel peeper which is why I can't unsee the differences this patch made. And I'm not only talking about the bow-zoom-thingy. There is a general decrease in LOD and visual quality.
I guess what I wanted to say is: your article sounded a bit dismissive to people like me who experience this bug.
In any case, keep up the work!

Thanks for your kind words and I also apologize if I somehow offended you. However we haven't noticed any visual differences. Perhaps there are some when the VRAM is full (this could explain some textures not loading) or some texture streaming issues on specific hardware? However, and if this is a bug, it's clearly not a downgrade. A bug happens on specific hardware. A downgrade-ation affects everyone. And that's clearly not the case here.